CNN“The smoke started getting thicker and blacker,” Kaleiopu recalled.
An emergency alert soon reached him by phone, urging Lahaina residents to flee: The smoke had given way to flames.
Not far away on the ocean, boat captain Christina Lovitt soon found herself on a skiff, also trying to help.
Stymied from anchoring by 70- to 80-mph gusts, they drifted and eventually were pulled onto a 120-foot boat, Lovitt recalled.
Aguiran watched his parents’ house burn down, one of five family homes destroyed, Tacderan said, and among more than 270 structures declared impacted so far by the fire in Lahaina.
Persons:
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Organizations:
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Locations:
Lahaina, Maui, Kaanapali, Hawaiian, That’s, “, ”, New York, Wailuku Maui, Huelo